Law enforcement is watching you In the same week that Facebook sets up a Safety Advisory Board and streamlines privacy settings, privacy watchdogs, Electronic Frontier Foundation...
A shot in the dark vs. a planned get together Rather than simply telling everyone, “I’m at Uncle Billy’s BBQ” in a tweet and hoping others...
Twitteriffic “Twitter” was deemed the most popular word in the English language for 2009 by the Global Language Monitor with the top phrase being “King of...
Twitter as a monitor Three researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have developed a new (albeit uberly complex) tool that uses Twitter to predict...
Stand out in the crowd In a world of high volume, high velocity social networking, it’s no longer good enough to just be present, you have...
We recently invited you all to connect with Agent Genius writers on Twitter and today we focus our attention on Facebook. Some people prefer the Twitter...
Why does the phrase “I’ll ping you” matter? Back in the day, clients said that they would call or that they would email them but times...
A goal is reached. If you’ve been around AgentGenius for awhile, you may remember my post “Join the Committme.” After the Google/Scraper debate, I was quite...
Believe it or not, last week there actually was an ad in the MLS Caravan Express announcing a house where you could “Live Near the Hollywood...
Are you tired of being kicked around just because you’re a real estate agent? Do you feel dissed and misunderstood? Does your mother brag about your...
Having friends is good. This topic is talked about all the time – the value of any relationship. Whether it’s our clients, our agent friends, our...
Is anyone besides moi exhausted by the networking demands of our age? Quite frankly, I believe we are under the illusion that we are being social,...
I’m surrounded by noise. You know me, I love hearing, listening, learning, and figured out new things. I’m surrounded by noise because I choose to be....
I Forbid You I formally forbid you from using one of the Twitter default backgrounds when you set up your profile. Unless you’re a solid green...
Like vitamin E for your face…book Facebook was originally developed for social networking of college students and required a .edu email address to log in (yeah,...
Think outside the box Although it’s not a screensaver, Visible Tweets can be a really cool way to showcase yourself without being over the top. People...
Dear Ginny WTH, The web has proven to be a huge benefit for getting product and service messages to prospective buyers faster, easier, and more cost...
Pop Culture FTW Ever wonder what all these acronyms on Twitter are? FTW, IRL, ROFL what? There are three solutions to getting to the bottom of...
Twitter Photo Sharing Sites Microblogging site Twitter (click here for info about Twitter) allows 140 characters to answer the question “what are you doing?” but words...
Google, Google, Google! This morning’s article about “Googling” yourself along with recent news of Google’s “Google Me” feature have me thinking more and more about Google....
Sign up and fuggedaboutit Not sure if it was at REBarCamp or at Inman Connect a couple of weeks ago…but the discussion was about social networks...
Recently, there’s been a bit of bickering going on in the real estate blogosphere and there’s been some blanket statements made about AgentGenius contributors. It got...
Lisa Milo-DiTullio, an agent in my office just sent me an email telling me that she is consistently connecting with buyers by answering questions on Trulia....
Competition Main Entry: com·pe·ti·tion Pronunciation: \?käm-p?-?ti-sh?n\ Function: noun Etymology: Late Latin competition-, competitio, from Latin competere Date: 1579 1: the act or process of competing :...
I’m On Twitter, Now What? Now that you have the 12 step program to get set up on Twitter, you’ll need to grow your network. You’ve...
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